5/28/2007Happy birthday to Justin, yeah, he is an old man, I actually have no clue how old he is now. No clue whatsoever.
So, yeah, we are moving ,we have been looking for a house, a place t olive because we are so incredibly cold. I am pretty sure that I have been way colder here than I was in punta arenas. We are trying to get moved in today but we don’t know if the mission is going to approve the place that we have chosen. So we will see. It is a pain to move but we have put up with a lot in two months. And the last two nights we haven’t slept because we have been so cold. They have said that it has been below zero, but that would be like 25 to 30 degrees for us. So it is a bit chilly but it is a very very humid and wet cold. But we are moving and now we are looking to buy fire wood so we can make a fire, that is the only way to survive here. But we are wayyyy happy today, cold still but happy.
So, as far as the work goes, we are doing great. My companion and i are great together, we get along perfectly. It is funny because we are together all day long and yet we still have a hard time going to bed on time because we start talking and then the next thing we know it is super late. But it is great. She is amazing and has so much faith. She is such a great example for me. We have been having a lot of success, finding a lot of people. We have put people with baptismal dates, one guy in the first lesson and now we can’t find him again. The other two, they aren’t willing to make sacrifices, like going to church. But little by little we are seeing amazing changes in some of the people. That is why i am here, that is what makes it worth while. That is what makes us happy, to be able to see how the lord blesses the people through us. We have found some awesome people here, with amazing hearts. It is amazing how the mission is changing me, it is amazing how I love small talk now, and hateddddddddddd it before the mission. It is amazing how i am generally interested in the peoples lives and before i couldn’t give a care .it is amazing how I want to do everything i can to help them to have a better life. It is amazing how i really know what we teach is true, it is soooo clear. All i want, from the bottom of my heart is that the people can understand so they can have the better life, we see what is on the other side of the fence, if they could just see it. It is amazing.
My comp reminded me today that as of today i have been out on my mission for 11 months!!!!!!!!! I almost had a heart attack, seriously. It is so crazy, i have left how much she has been out. the time has gone by sooooo fast. It is amazing, i have gotten to a point in my mission. My life has changed. My focus has changed .i just feel so blessed to be able to give every minute of my day to the work of the lord and to helping other people. We talk to everyone in the street, i have never had so many drunk friends before JJJ)J. No, but it is amazing how the things of the world don’t even interest me anymore. It doesn’t´ even phase me, they seem so trivial, what do they do for us in the scheme of things, in the eternal perspective. I can’t wait to come home and too see you all but it is interesting how it doesn’t bother me that i can’t go on the lake, i can’t ride my bike, it doesn’t matter. What i am doing is soooooooooooo much more important, these are the things that will last for the eternity. It is amazing how it is so clear, we just have to obey, i have been thinking a lot about the higher law, god’s higher law that we must live to be able to return to him someday. The spiritual law, like how much time do we really waste in our lives, idleness when we should be helping our brother and sisters, i was so good at being idle before the mission, wasting time. It is amazing how if we stop doing the small and simple things like not reading the scriptures everyday or not praying everyday, not doing it as a family, how it changes us, our testimonies can’t grow, we can’t learn or progress. How, if we don’t go to church every week no matter what, how we keep the Sabbath day holy, if we live all these things. They are so simple. But why don’t we do them, because we are more interested in ourselves. We don’t have faith that god will bless us as we keep his commandments. Do we really have a testimony of jose smith, that he was called of god and resorted Christ’s church. If so, why don’t we live the gospel. There is a talk from general conference that i loved, it is called, it is true isn’t, then what else matters. The church is true isn’t it, then what else in our life matters. Live it, love it, put everything into it. I have been thinking a lot about this stuff .i know the church is true, i know god lives, Christ is our savior, i know god called joseph smith as a prophet, i know we have the true church on the earth and within the temples we can do saving ordinances for ourselves and the people who can’t. I miss the temple sooooooo much. I would die to live at home, so close, an hour and a half away. People here sacrifice soooooooo much to go to the temple. Please, go to the temple. It is only something that is going to help you more than anything we can do at home. It is for our eternal salvatino to help out our brothers and sister. Please, set a goal to go once a month, and do it. I worry a lot about the family, and how we can never fall away, stay firm, but more importantly, keep progressing and never stop, never get lazy, never slack off. There is nothing greater than the gospel of jesus christ .i love it more now than ever. I love studying the scriptures and the basic doctrines, i have learned more with that then anything else. I know that here on the mission god puts us in peoples way so they can know their gospel and live it and change their lives. He wants us all to return to him but it is up to us. I am so grateful to be on a mission, grateful to be in frutillar and to have hna monsavle as my compaino, i am grateful for everything i have learned and how the spirit touches peoples lives through us. I always thought that my defect was that i never really had the spirit with me enough, i lacked the power of the spirit but hna monsavle says that she has learned from me how to teach by the spirit that he can feel it so powerfully when i teach. It was a reassuring feeling. She is great. We hope to stay together for awhile. J lvoe ya all. Please, follow Christ’s example in everything. He can take us through everything. Until next week. Thanks for your prayers, letters, and love. Love, hna jamie pratt
PS
don’t worry my comp found theeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee biggest flea on me!! and then it jumped and hid in my hair!!!!!!!!!!!! i have so many fleas, i have flea bites everywhereeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
So, yeah, we are moving ,we have been looking for a house, a place t olive because we are so incredibly cold. I am pretty sure that I have been way colder here than I was in punta arenas. We are trying to get moved in today but we don’t know if the mission is going to approve the place that we have chosen. So we will see. It is a pain to move but we have put up with a lot in two months. And the last two nights we haven’t slept because we have been so cold. They have said that it has been below zero, but that would be like 25 to 30 degrees for us. So it is a bit chilly but it is a very very humid and wet cold. But we are moving and now we are looking to buy fire wood so we can make a fire, that is the only way to survive here. But we are wayyyy happy today, cold still but happy.
So, as far as the work goes, we are doing great. My companion and i are great together, we get along perfectly. It is funny because we are together all day long and yet we still have a hard time going to bed on time because we start talking and then the next thing we know it is super late. But it is great. She is amazing and has so much faith. She is such a great example for me. We have been having a lot of success, finding a lot of people. We have put people with baptismal dates, one guy in the first lesson and now we can’t find him again. The other two, they aren’t willing to make sacrifices, like going to church. But little by little we are seeing amazing changes in some of the people. That is why i am here, that is what makes it worth while. That is what makes us happy, to be able to see how the lord blesses the people through us. We have found some awesome people here, with amazing hearts. It is amazing how the mission is changing me, it is amazing how I love small talk now, and hateddddddddddd it before the mission. It is amazing how i am generally interested in the peoples lives and before i couldn’t give a care .it is amazing how I want to do everything i can to help them to have a better life. It is amazing how i really know what we teach is true, it is soooo clear. All i want, from the bottom of my heart is that the people can understand so they can have the better life, we see what is on the other side of the fence, if they could just see it. It is amazing.
My comp reminded me today that as of today i have been out on my mission for 11 months!!!!!!!!! I almost had a heart attack, seriously. It is so crazy, i have left how much she has been out. the time has gone by sooooo fast. It is amazing, i have gotten to a point in my mission. My life has changed. My focus has changed .i just feel so blessed to be able to give every minute of my day to the work of the lord and to helping other people. We talk to everyone in the street, i have never had so many drunk friends before JJJ)J. No, but it is amazing how the things of the world don’t even interest me anymore. It doesn’t´ even phase me, they seem so trivial, what do they do for us in the scheme of things, in the eternal perspective. I can’t wait to come home and too see you all but it is interesting how it doesn’t bother me that i can’t go on the lake, i can’t ride my bike, it doesn’t matter. What i am doing is soooooooooooo much more important, these are the things that will last for the eternity. It is amazing how it is so clear, we just have to obey, i have been thinking a lot about the higher law, god’s higher law that we must live to be able to return to him someday. The spiritual law, like how much time do we really waste in our lives, idleness when we should be helping our brother and sisters, i was so good at being idle before the mission, wasting time. It is amazing how if we stop doing the small and simple things like not reading the scriptures everyday or not praying everyday, not doing it as a family, how it changes us, our testimonies can’t grow, we can’t learn or progress. How, if we don’t go to church every week no matter what, how we keep the Sabbath day holy, if we live all these things. They are so simple. But why don’t we do them, because we are more interested in ourselves. We don’t have faith that god will bless us as we keep his commandments. Do we really have a testimony of jose smith, that he was called of god and resorted Christ’s church. If so, why don’t we live the gospel. There is a talk from general conference that i loved, it is called, it is true isn’t, then what else matters. The church is true isn’t it, then what else in our life matters. Live it, love it, put everything into it. I have been thinking a lot about this stuff .i know the church is true, i know god lives, Christ is our savior, i know god called joseph smith as a prophet, i know we have the true church on the earth and within the temples we can do saving ordinances for ourselves and the people who can’t. I miss the temple sooooooo much. I would die to live at home, so close, an hour and a half away. People here sacrifice soooooooo much to go to the temple. Please, go to the temple. It is only something that is going to help you more than anything we can do at home. It is for our eternal salvatino to help out our brothers and sister. Please, set a goal to go once a month, and do it. I worry a lot about the family, and how we can never fall away, stay firm, but more importantly, keep progressing and never stop, never get lazy, never slack off. There is nothing greater than the gospel of jesus christ .i love it more now than ever. I love studying the scriptures and the basic doctrines, i have learned more with that then anything else. I know that here on the mission god puts us in peoples way so they can know their gospel and live it and change their lives. He wants us all to return to him but it is up to us. I am so grateful to be on a mission, grateful to be in frutillar and to have hna monsavle as my compaino, i am grateful for everything i have learned and how the spirit touches peoples lives through us. I always thought that my defect was that i never really had the spirit with me enough, i lacked the power of the spirit but hna monsavle says that she has learned from me how to teach by the spirit that he can feel it so powerfully when i teach. It was a reassuring feeling. She is great. We hope to stay together for awhile. J lvoe ya all. Please, follow Christ’s example in everything. He can take us through everything. Until next week. Thanks for your prayers, letters, and love. Love, hna jamie pratt
PS
don’t worry my comp found theeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee biggest flea on me!! and then it jumped and hid in my hair!!!!!!!!!!!! i have so many fleas, i have flea bites everywhereeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
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